Hi, I have an output-list (master.txt) that consists of multiple lines. Each line contains a (part of a-) filename. Example: orderref_010134 orderref_010135 orderref_010139 I want to use a batchfile to find any files from a directory and it's subdirectories that contain each of those lines. Something like: xcopy *orderref_010134* c:\collect /s /y xcopy *orderref_010135* c:\collect /s /y xcopy *orderref_010139* c:\collect /s /y So I will end up with only the files that have these names in them. I hope I'm clear with my question? (I need to process such a list, hundreds of orderfiles each month. I'm doing that manually in Windows Explorer now by searching orderref_010134,orderref_010135,orderref_010139 which produces the result I need. If I could batch this action, I would use it to create a zip-file and email it automatically with blat to the person who needs those files)

Hi Do you mean something like this. @echo off cd Temp dir /b /s | find "orderref_01134" > Files.txt dir /b /s | find "orderref_01135" >> Files.txt dir /b /s | find "orderref_01139" >> Files.txt for /f %%a in (Files.txt) do copy %%a \Collect > nul echo Done!

Wonderfull!!